Bluestockings (32 page)

21. A group of Girton Classicists in 1891 counter the traditional image of the dowdy bluestocking.

22. Vera Brittain of Somerville College, Oxford, 1913.

23. Open-air revision in June, 1919.

24. The first women entitled to wear academic dress at Oxford University, at their matriculation ceremony in 1921.

25. Sisters Grace, Julie and Daphne Fredericks, who all became students at Oxford or Cambridge in the late 1920s and visited each other by bicycle.

26. Students of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, prepare for punting,
c.
1890.

27. The Oxford University ladies’ hockey team,
c.
1900.

28. St Hilda’s Boat Club members under instruction in the 1920s.

29. Exeter University’s tennis team, 1929.

30. The entire student and staff population of Leicester University on its opening in 1922. The ratio of men to women is 2 to 10.

31. A student chemist at Leeds University, 1908.

32. Physics research in a temporary laboratory, Queen Mary College, London,
c.
1930.

33. A practical lesson in anatomy. Human bodies under dissection, 1911.